John Westbrook
Biographic Data
| ID | 760786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Westbrook |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Westbrook |
| SIGNATURE | WESTBROOK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1083-8192 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Co‐Producing Patient‐Reported Experience Measures With People With Intellectual Disability to Improve Healthcare Quality and Outcomes
INTRODUCTION: Intellectual disability, defined by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviour with onset during the developmental period, affects an estimated 2% (108 million) of people worldwide. People with intellectual disability experience major health inequity, poor health outcomes and premature deaths, with mortality rates that are 7-12 times higher than the general population. Patient-reported experience…
Protocol for a Field Trial of a Hearing and Vision Support Intervention for People Living in Long‐Term Care in Australia
INTRODUCTION: Hearing and vision impairments are prevalent among residents in long-term care settings. Hearing and vision impairments frequently go unsupported, affecting residents' quality of life and healthcare costs. This paper describes the protocol for a pre-post evaluation and process evaluation of a pragmatic sensory support intervention (SSI) that was developed with residents, informal caregivers and long-term care workers. METHODS AND AN…
Analysing health system capacity and preparedness for climate change
Community Preferences for Allied Health Services in Residential Aged Care
INTRODUCTION: Exploring health consumer preferences in care is an essential foundational, and ongoing activity, when designing and delivering models of care. We undertook a study to explore: (i) what allied health (AH) services are most important to health consumers and (ii) how health consumers expect to access these services in residential aged care (RAC) to determine consumer priorities in future AH models of care in RAC. METHODS: A mixed meth…
The impact of vulnerability and exposure to pervasive interprofessional incivility among medical staff on wellbeing
Introduction: Traditional methods for modelling human interactions within organisational contexts are often hindered by the complexity inherent within these systems. Building on new approaches to information modelling in the social sciences and drawing on the work of scholars in transdisciplinary fields, we proposed that a reliable model of human interaction as well as its emergent properties can be demonstrated using theories related to emergent…
Characteristics of older Australian community aged care clients who fall
Falls are the leading cause of injury and hospitalisation for older adults (aged 65 years or older) worldwide. Data collected by community aged care providers are an underutilised source of information about precipitating risk factors and consequences of falls for older adults living in the community. The objective of this longitudinal, observational study was to describe and compare the characteristics of older Australians who did and did not ha…
Integrating social engagement instruments into Australian community aged care assessments to enhance service provision
Rich social relationships contribute to improved well-being and health outcomes, yet aged care client assessments tend to focus almost exclusively on physical issues. We aim to explore the experiences of aged care staff following their use of social engagement and well-being instruments as part of routine assessments for home-care clients. The social engagement (Australian Community Participation Questionnaire, ACPQ) and well-being (ICEpop CAPabi…
Social participation as an indicator of successful aging
Objectives Social participation has generated a wealth of research in gerontology, but the concept suffers from a lack of conceptual clarity that renders it difficult to define and measure. This means that research on social participation is difficult to compare directly. The aim of the present study was to draw the literature on social participation in older adults together to inform health services researchers seeking to investigate social part…
Implementing Information and Communication Technology to Support Community Aged Care Service Integration
There is value in explicitly modelling the work processes that emerge as a consequence of ICT. Continuous evaluation of the match between ICT and work processes will help aged care organisations to achieve higher levels of ICT maturity that support their efforts to provide integrated care to clients
The Work of Front Line Community Aged Care Staff and the Impact of a Changing Policy Landscape and Consumer-Directed Care
Community aged care in Australia is facing both challenges and opportunities with the introduction of consumer-directed care and its goal to provide clients with greater choice and control over their care services. Such policy changes impact not only aged care organisations, but front line staff who manage and deliver care. This study investigated the work of front line staff and their perceptions of the impact of a changing policy landscape. Foc…
Analysing ‘big picture’ policy reform mechanisms
BACKGROUND: Agencies promoting national health-care accreditation reform to improve the quality of care and safety of patients are largely working without specific blueprints that can increase the likelihood of success. OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the development and implementation of the Australian Health Service Safety and Quality Accreditation Scheme and National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (the Scheme), their expected b…
Psychological Interventions to Facilitate Employment Outcomes for Cancer Survivors
Purpose: The objective was to examine experimental and quasi-experimental studies about interventions that (i) included behavioral, psychological, educational, or vocational components; (ii) involved cancer survivors aged 18 years or older; and (iii) assessed employment outcomes. Methods: The aims were both to describe the variety of interventions that have been studied using rigorous methods and to estimate intervention effects using systematic …
Transition Services for Youth With Autism
Purpose As the number of individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) rises, attention is increasingly focused on employment outcomes for individuals with ASD who are exiting public school settings. This review aimed to identify what works in transition programs to help students with ASD obtain competitive employment after graduation. Method Authors combed through the literature to find all research that could definitively identify…
Successfully integrating aged care services
Background: Providing efficient and effective aged care services is one of the greatest public policy concerns currently facing governments. Increasing the integration of care services has the potential to provide many benefits including increased access, promoting greater efficiency, and improving care outcomes. There is little research, however, investigating how integrated aged care can be successfully achieved. The PRISMA (Program of Research…
Interpreting social network metrics in healthcare organisations
Time matters - A theoretical and empirical examination of the temporal landscape of a hospital pathology service and the impact of e-health
How and where clinicians exercise power
From Cultural Machines to Dematerialized Cultures
Cultures in hospitals and their influence on attitudes to, and satisfaction with, the use of clinical information systems
Video Research in Health
This paper discusses video ethnography as part of a multimethod study of the introduction of information technology to streamline pathology test order entry in hospitals and its effect on the work of pathology laboratory scientists. The paper opens with an overview of video research in health care settings. After acknowledging the limitations inherent in video data, the paper offers a description of how video footage served to enhance insight in …
Gender differences in the symptoms and physical and mental well-being of dyspeptics
Charting a Course Through the Health Care Policy Maze
Health Policy: Development, Implementation and Evaluation in Australia. By H eather GARDNER (ed.) The Price of Health: Australian Governments and Medical Politics 1910–1960. By J ames A G illespie Federalism and Health Policy: The Development of Health Systems in Canada and Australia. By G wendolyn G ray The President's Health Security Plan. By W hite H ouse D omestic C ouncil Hospitals in Transition: The Resource Management Experiment. By T im P…
Cohabitation
Cohabitation is a plastic term. It can be stretched to encompass a large number of meanings—political, social, or even historical. Its denotative simplicity, cohabitation meaning merely to dwell together, provides for its connotative prolificacy. Once in the presence of two political groups, two political institutions, or two fields of intellectual inquiry, one can speak of cohabitation. However, the use of this term conveys the idea that one is …
L’air du temps
Despite what seems to be the assured victory of the Right in the upcoming legislative elections, the situation in France is far from clear. What will this victory mean when the very categories of political thought and classification, Right versus Left, “liberal ” versus “jacobin,” have lost a certain degree of their coherence. The break up of political discourse, the diffusion of similar ideas and “mots d’ordre” in opposing political camps, is in…
L’air du temps
Despite what seems to be the assured victory of the Right in the upcoming legislative elections, the situation in France is far from clear. What will this victory mean when the very categories of political thought and classification, Right versus Left, “liberal ” versus “jacobin,” have lost a certain degree of their coherence. The break up of political discourse, the diffusion of similar ideas and “mots d’ordre” in opposing political camps, is in…
How and where clinicians exercise power
Video Research in Health
This paper discusses video ethnography as part of a multimethod study of the introduction of information technology to streamline pathology test order entry in hospitals and its effect on the work of pathology laboratory scientists. The paper opens with an overview of video research in health care settings. After acknowledging the limitations inherent in video data, the paper offers a description of how video footage served to enhance insight in …
Time matters - A theoretical and empirical examination of the temporal landscape of a hospital pathology service and the impact of e-health
Cultures in hospitals and their influence on attitudes to, and satisfaction with, the use of clinical information systems
Implementing Information and Communication Technology to Support Community Aged Care Service Integration
There is value in explicitly modelling the work processes that emerge as a consequence of ICT. Continuous evaluation of the match between ICT and work processes will help aged care organisations to achieve higher levels of ICT maturity that support their efforts to provide integrated care to clients
Transition Services for Youth With Autism
Purpose As the number of individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) rises, attention is increasingly focused on employment outcomes for individuals with ASD who are exiting public school settings. This review aimed to identify what works in transition programs to help students with ASD obtain competitive employment after graduation. Method Authors combed through the literature to find all research that could definitively identify…
From Cultural Machines to Dematerialized Cultures
L’air du temps
Despite what seems to be the assured victory of the Right in the upcoming legislative elections, the situation in France is far from clear. What will this victory mean when the very categories of political thought and classification, Right versus Left, “liberal ” versus “jacobin,” have lost a certain degree of their coherence. The break up of political discourse, the diffusion of similar ideas and “mots d’ordre” in opposing political camps, is in…
L’air du temps
Despite what seems to be the assured victory of the Right in the upcoming legislative elections, the situation in France is far from clear. What will this victory mean when the very categories of political thought and classification, Right versus Left, “liberal ” versus “jacobin,” have lost a certain degree of their coherence. The break up of political discourse, the diffusion of similar ideas and “mots d’ordre” in opposing political camps, is in…
Cohabitation
Cohabitation is a plastic term. It can be stretched to encompass a large number of meanings—political, social, or even historical. Its denotative simplicity, cohabitation meaning merely to dwell together, provides for its connotative prolificacy. Once in the presence of two political groups, two political institutions, or two fields of intellectual inquiry, one can speak of cohabitation. However, the use of this term conveys the idea that one is …
Charting a Course Through the Health Care Policy Maze
Health Policy: Development, Implementation and Evaluation in Australia. By H eather GARDNER (ed.) The Price of Health: Australian Governments and Medical Politics 1910–1960. By J ames A G illespie Federalism and Health Policy: The Development of Health Systems in Canada and Australia. By G wendolyn G ray The President's Health Security Plan. By W hite H ouse D omestic C ouncil Hospitals in Transition: The Resource Management Experiment. By T im P…
Gender differences in the symptoms and physical and mental well-being of dyspeptics
Video Research in Health
This paper discusses video ethnography as part of a multimethod study of the introduction of information technology to streamline pathology test order entry in hospitals and its effect on the work of pathology laboratory scientists. The paper opens with an overview of video research in health care settings. After acknowledging the limitations inherent in video data, the paper offers a description of how video footage served to enhance insight in …
Cultures in hospitals and their influence on attitudes to, and satisfaction with, the use of clinical information systems
From Cultural Machines to Dematerialized Cultures
How and where clinicians exercise power
Interpreting social network metrics in healthcare organisations
Time matters - A theoretical and empirical examination of the temporal landscape of a hospital pathology service and the impact of e-health
Successfully integrating aged care services
Background: Providing efficient and effective aged care services is one of the greatest public policy concerns currently facing governments. Increasing the integration of care services has the potential to provide many benefits including increased access, promoting greater efficiency, and improving care outcomes. There is little research, however, investigating how integrated aged care can be successfully achieved. The PRISMA (Program of Research…
Transition Services for Youth With Autism
Purpose As the number of individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) rises, attention is increasingly focused on employment outcomes for individuals with ASD who are exiting public school settings. This review aimed to identify what works in transition programs to help students with ASD obtain competitive employment after graduation. Method Authors combed through the literature to find all research that could definitively identify…
Analysing ‘big picture’ policy reform mechanisms
BACKGROUND: Agencies promoting national health-care accreditation reform to improve the quality of care and safety of patients are largely working without specific blueprints that can increase the likelihood of success. OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the development and implementation of the Australian Health Service Safety and Quality Accreditation Scheme and National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (the Scheme), their expected b…
Psychological Interventions to Facilitate Employment Outcomes for Cancer Survivors
Purpose: The objective was to examine experimental and quasi-experimental studies about interventions that (i) included behavioral, psychological, educational, or vocational components; (ii) involved cancer survivors aged 18 years or older; and (iii) assessed employment outcomes. Methods: The aims were both to describe the variety of interventions that have been studied using rigorous methods and to estimate intervention effects using systematic …
Social participation as an indicator of successful aging
Objectives Social participation has generated a wealth of research in gerontology, but the concept suffers from a lack of conceptual clarity that renders it difficult to define and measure. This means that research on social participation is difficult to compare directly. The aim of the present study was to draw the literature on social participation in older adults together to inform health services researchers seeking to investigate social part…
Implementing Information and Communication Technology to Support Community Aged Care Service Integration
There is value in explicitly modelling the work processes that emerge as a consequence of ICT. Continuous evaluation of the match between ICT and work processes will help aged care organisations to achieve higher levels of ICT maturity that support their efforts to provide integrated care to clients
The Work of Front Line Community Aged Care Staff and the Impact of a Changing Policy Landscape and Consumer-Directed Care
Community aged care in Australia is facing both challenges and opportunities with the introduction of consumer-directed care and its goal to provide clients with greater choice and control over their care services. Such policy changes impact not only aged care organisations, but front line staff who manage and deliver care. This study investigated the work of front line staff and their perceptions of the impact of a changing policy landscape. Foc…
Integrating social engagement instruments into Australian community aged care assessments to enhance service provision
Rich social relationships contribute to improved well-being and health outcomes, yet aged care client assessments tend to focus almost exclusively on physical issues. We aim to explore the experiences of aged care staff following their use of social engagement and well-being instruments as part of routine assessments for home-care clients. The social engagement (Australian Community Participation Questionnaire, ACPQ) and well-being (ICEpop CAPabi…
Characteristics of older Australian community aged care clients who fall
Falls are the leading cause of injury and hospitalisation for older adults (aged 65 years or older) worldwide. Data collected by community aged care providers are an underutilised source of information about precipitating risk factors and consequences of falls for older adults living in the community. The objective of this longitudinal, observational study was to describe and compare the characteristics of older Australians who did and did not ha…
The impact of vulnerability and exposure to pervasive interprofessional incivility among medical staff on wellbeing
Introduction: Traditional methods for modelling human interactions within organisational contexts are often hindered by the complexity inherent within these systems. Building on new approaches to information modelling in the social sciences and drawing on the work of scholars in transdisciplinary fields, we proposed that a reliable model of human interaction as well as its emergent properties can be demonstrated using theories related to emergent…
Analysing health system capacity and preparedness for climate change
Community Preferences for Allied Health Services in Residential Aged Care
INTRODUCTION: Exploring health consumer preferences in care is an essential foundational, and ongoing activity, when designing and delivering models of care. We undertook a study to explore: (i) what allied health (AH) services are most important to health consumers and (ii) how health consumers expect to access these services in residential aged care (RAC) to determine consumer priorities in future AH models of care in RAC. METHODS: A mixed meth…
Co‐Producing Patient‐Reported Experience Measures With People With Intellectual Disability to Improve Healthcare Quality and Outcomes
INTRODUCTION: Intellectual disability, defined by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviour with onset during the developmental period, affects an estimated 2% (108 million) of people worldwide. People with intellectual disability experience major health inequity, poor health outcomes and premature deaths, with mortality rates that are 7-12 times higher than the general population. Patient-reported experience…
Protocol for a Field Trial of a Hearing and Vision Support Intervention for People Living in Long‐Term Care in Australia
INTRODUCTION: Hearing and vision impairments are prevalent among residents in long-term care settings. Hearing and vision impairments frequently go unsupported, affecting residents' quality of life and healthcare costs. This paper describes the protocol for a pre-post evaluation and process evaluation of a pragmatic sensory support intervention (SSI) that was developed with residents, informal caregivers and long-term care workers. METHODS AND AN…
Medicine (18 works) · Political science (15 works) · Health care (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (7 works) · Marketing (5 works) · Public relations (5 works)